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department of traditional sports club

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. It has a ''

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(CBLoL), Brazil's top professional league for the game.

''League of Legends''

History

On 6 October 2017 Flamengo announced the creation if its esports department and its acquisition of the BRCC (Brazilian equivalent of North America and Europe's former challenger series) spot of Merciless Gaming. For its inaugural roster, Flamengo signed top laner Park "Jisu" Jin-cheol, jungler Thúlio "Sirt" Carlos, mid laner Danniel "Evrot" Franco, bot laner Felipe "brTT" Gonçalves, and support Eidi "esA" Yanagimachi. The team debuted in BRCC 2018 Split 1 and finished as runner-ups, qualifying for the BRCC 2018 Split 2 promotion tournament. Flamengo qualified for the CBLoL after defeating Team oNe eSports 3–2 in the "access series" match. Flamengo finished as runner-ups in the team's first CBLoL appearance, in both the regular season and playoffs after losing 2–3 to

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in the finals. In preparation for the 2019 CBLoL season, Flamengo replaced its entire roster excluding brTT, signing top laner Leonardo "Robo" Souza, jungler Lee "Shrimp" Byeong-hoon, mid laner Bruno "Goku" Miyaguchi, and support Han "Luci" Chang-hoon. The team dominated the regular season of Split 1, losing only a single game to KaBuM. However, in playoffs Flamengo once again fell short, losing to INTZ e-Sports 2–3 in the finals. After placing first once again in the regular season of Split 2, Flamengo managed to defeat INTZ 3–2 to finally win their first CBLoL title. This also qualified the team for play-in stage of the 2019 World Championship. For the 2019 World Championship play-in stage round robin, Flamengo was placed in Group D, along with South Korean team

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and Turkish team Royal Youth. Despite a good showing against DAMWON Gaming and Royal Youth in the first round robin (the latter of which Flamengo defeated), Flamengo faltered in the second, losing to both teams and tying Royal Youth for second in Group D. After losing the tiebreaker match to Royal Youth, Flamengo was eliminated from the tournament.

Roster

Tournament results

References

External links

* {{Clube de Regatas do Flamengo E 2017 establishments in Brazil Esports teams based in Brazil Esports teams established in 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends teams